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Nothing new, I'm afraid: it's an ad for the basic line (which runs cheaper than the special flavors): plain Pocky and Men's Pocky. I think in the ad the girl's holding a box of Men's Pocky, but I don't remember too precisely.

Glico always has a variety of Pocky that they sell at once, some regional-only varients, some limited edition flavors, some basic line varieties, etc. Men's Pocky and plain Pocky usually are the cheapest. Since I don't see other main-line flavors much around here, I can't compare those prices. Other sub-lines of pocky include the Decorations series (there's a French word they use for the line, which I can't remember the spelling of at the moment), the Mousse series, etc. There's also Giant Pocky, but you don't see that around here. Now and then you see Mini Pocky, which is basically just a shorter version of plain Pocky (from what I see).

The current limited edition flavors that I see around Yokohama are Green Tea Mousse and An Mousse--the Green Tea Mousse isn't good at all in my opinion. I liked the Royal Milk Tea Mousse better. Otherwise, there's tsubo-Strawberry [sic?] (has freeze-dried strawberry chunks in it), Almond-White Chocolate, and Almond-Milk Chocolate. Sometimes I see plain Strawberry, but not often. Recently, there was a Banana-Fudge Brownie flavor in the Decorations series, but I don't remember seeing that in the past week.

It kind of surprised me that you can't get many of the varients around here. There's definitely regional variation in the Glico distribution chain.